Why use Windows Server AppFabric cache?
AppFabric cache for Windows Server is a distributed cache environment that can be shared across multiple servers.
It eliminates the problem of caching to memory on individual servers in a multi-front-end scenario, which could cause data discrepancies among your front-end servers.
AppFabric cache allows the following enhancements to the Aurea Social Software:
- Suggest Ahead capabilities. Suggest Ahead queries the cache as you type to suggest similar posts, questions and communities.
- Activity Stream caching. This can speed up the loading of the Activity Stream by several seconds.
- Community Activity Stream caching (introduced in v5.2). This also speeds up the loading of the Community Activity Stream.